Chapter 276: Retreat

Richard shook his head as he looked at the shadow of death on Ymir's face. Ymir's injuries were too severe. No matter how good the doctor was, he couldn't be saved. No matter how much divine power or magic power he poured into him, it was useless.

Richard stretched out a hand and took back the heart of Yggdelsilu. Just as Ymir said, the key had a shielding cover laid by Ymir, but his shielding was useless. When he wanted to take it back, the key swung into Richard's hand.

Ymir, lying on the ground, smiled bitterly: "Sure enough, my magic is useless. I was really lost when you took it away... But you have to keep it well. Slud is definitely not as powerful as he said. If that were the case, he would never have collected this treasure! All my research on him is with my subordinates. You can go find them when you get out."

Ymir wrote a coordinate on the ground and said: "This is their location. I told them that if you go to this place to find him, it means that I am dead. They will follow you as they follow me."

Seeing Richard nodded to indicate that he had taken note of the message, Ymir smiled with relief, closed his eyes, and gradually stopped breathing.

Richard looked up and looked around. The soldiers who were still able to move were all nervously looking at the two parties on the field. Except for Odin, everyone else was looking at Richard. Odin was staring at the Simora version of Slud. On the other side of his gaze, Slud was also staring at Odin. The two seemed to be communicating in some way. The flame of Revatin had not yet risen. It seemed that it would take some time. Slud should not be able to organize Richard and the others during this time. Otherwise, Slud would not have let Ymir say so many last words.

"What, do you want to escape? Leave your life behind before you escape!" Slud raised Revatin, who was not fully charged with energy.

Richard smiled, and pushed forward with both hands. Seven fire pillars rose from the ground, forming a circle, which was exactly where a magic circle was, firmly blocking Slud's movement space.

"When?" Slud looked at the fire pillars around him with some surprise. Before Revadin charged, he couldn't cut off these fire pillars.

"Those who want to leave, come closer to me. If you stay away, don't blame me!"

Hearing Richard's words, all the people who were still alive tried to squeeze around Richard. Richard glanced at Slud. The general data had been analyzed. Now there were only a few missing, such as the duration of this state... A few shadow eyes as thin as hair were left here. A long snake-like shadow energy drilled into the stage where Slud was standing, analyzing the structure and energy inside and staying away. It could also block the transmission of energy when necessary.

"Richard?" Diluka looked at Richard puzzled. Now that Slud's energy was not accumulated, it was a good time to defeat her. Why did Richard choose to retreat?

Richard waved his hand at her and cast a teleportation spell. All the people in the theater and Ymir's body were teleported out. Within ten seconds, Revadin regained his energy and cut off the surrounding flames, but Slud's eyes no longer had the arrogance he had before...

"Richard? Why are we retreating?"

Richard frowned: "I feel something is wrong, so I decided to act cautiously. Let's find Ymir's subordinates first and study the key and Srud carefully."

Diluka looked at Ymir's body on the ground and said: "I still wonder why he blocked that blow for us in the end."

Richard looked around. The goddesses were resting, and the soldiers who survived the disaster walked around, looking at the sky and chatting. Richard walked towards an empty place, and Diluka followed him.

"Maybe Ymir wants to protect Loki instead of us."

"Loki?"

"In previous battles, Ymir met Loki several times. Loki once received funding, and my people found out that the source of the funds was Ymir. In our battle at the border of Fruk, Ymir captured Loki and did not hurt him, which is enough to show Ymir's feelings for him."

Diluka frowned and said, "Ymir wants to use him as a tool. Not only him, but also us, aren't we also targets of Ymir's use?"

"If Ymir wanted to use him, he would have turned him into a puppet long ago. Remember Fenrir? This is the best example."

"Yeah." Diluka nodded and agreed with Richard, then suddenly sighed, "Imir is so pitiful..."

Richard laughed, "Why do you suddenly sympathize with him?"

"Look, after fighting for so long, he finally became a cold corpse."

Richard looked back at Imir's body and said, "This is the path he must take. He must know more about Slude than we do. After he learned of Slude's plan, all he could do was resist. But if the resistance failed, he would have only this ending. He knew the ending from the beginning, and he arranged his own funeral before going on stage... If we had first come into contact with Imir, perhaps the ending would be different."

"It's all fate." Diluka shook her head gently.

"By the way, we don't know where Fenrir is right now, go and capture her. Although we don't need her, we can't let Slud find an opportunity."

"Understood."

Diluka immediately commanded the Pegasus Legion to hunt down Fenrir. Richard glanced at Odin, who was now basking in the sun. Another reason why Richard retreated was Odin. After entering the theater, Richard always felt that there was something wrong with Odin, but he didn't know what it was. Some of Odin's sudden memories were also suspicious.

"Sir Richard."

Richard turned around, and Fina stood behind Richard with her hands in front of her.

"What's wrong, Fina?"

"Lord Richard, can you let me prepare Lord Imir's funeral?"

"Why?"

Fina hesitated, Richard said, "I'll keep it a secret for you."

Fina glanced at Rocky and whispered, "Actually, I'm a chess piece that Lord Imir planted next to Rocky."

"What?"

"You can see from my sister that she is one of the closest people to the Demon King, and I'm not much worse. I was originally a housekeeper for Imir, the first heir to the throne of the Demon King. Later, when Lord Rocky was born, I came to Lord Rocky with a mission as a gift. Lord Rocky didn't know this, he always thought I used to work for Lord Simora."